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The Oak Hill Youth Center, open since 1967 and plagued with the predictible issues of violence and failings one might suspect from a D.C. youth detention center, officially closes today. The last kids arrived yesterday at the New Beginnings Youth Center, not far from Oak Hill in Laurel, Md., where Mayor Adrian Fenty will be on hand today for its opening ceremony. The new campus is spacious and technologically advanced, with electronic key cards, floor-to-ceiling chalkboards for the kids -- and no razor wire -- making it "the anti-prison," the Post quotes Vincent N. Schiraldi, director of the D.C. Dept. of Youth Rehabilitation Services. "What we had before was a training school for them to become adult inmates. We want them to aspire to college, to be in a place that looks like you care about them."
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Uh, on a purely practical note, doesn't "no razor wire" mean it will be easier for the juvenile offenders to escape?
Why would anyone want to escape from such a delightful correctional facility? Is "correctional" even the proper terminology anymore? Aren't these more about socialization and skillset learning, where children can aspire to college in a caring, nurturing environment where every day is a rich and rewarding experience?
Answer me OR I'LL CUT YOU, MUTHAF**KER!
How many penises can be drawn on a floor-to-ceiling chalkboard? This will be examined in depth for the duration of the chalkboards or until college prep students escape.
Will they practice waterboarding on the rock-throwing thugs who car-jack you when you're eating JUMBO SLICE PIZZA?
Does anyone know why these things have to be in Laurel?
I grew up in Laurel. It probably won't be much different than my high school.
i visited oak hill about 10 years ago for a college class. not that a detention center should be pleasant, but the place was a miserable, run down mess. good riddance.
Oak Hill must be the one Pelecanos based the detention center in his new book on. I think that one was called Pine Ridge.
When is Visiting Day?!? I'll bring the Jumbo Slice Pizza and Extra Large Condoms.
Wliz, I understand bringing the JUMBO SLICE PIZZA but the EXTRA LARGE CONDOMS? I thought...assumed...ahem..will they be for the youths or will you be wearing them? I had these erotic images of you..but not like that.
I have high expectations, I know.
But you should see the look in their eyes when I pull out that box!
Unless they're...ummmm...errrr...thinking what you're thinking.
Gosh! That leaves a lot to the imagination. Who is going to
be the pitcher and who is going to be the catcher? What a
CONDOMDRUM! Like in golf, we'll swing both ways.
Film at 11?